Does it work the other way? I'm Canadian and a huge part of our culture is defined by the ways we are unlike Americans.
Can't imagine Anglo-French culture works quite like that.
Can't imagine Anglo-French culture works quite like that.
So I don't think we have that England/France relationship at all either. It seems pretty special on the world stage.
From anyone familiar with it, is New Zealand and Australia's relationship at all similar to either Canada and USA or England and France?
The original point was that Britain/France have the superficial differences that let us be friends (USA/Canada) yet we have some deeper differences and historical differences that let us be enemies (USA/Russia).
The nice part of it is that we can carrot and stick ourselves with one neighbour, instead of making our enemy the devil incarnate.
- At one point New Zealand was part of the colony of New South Wales (until 1841, while the nation of Australia came into being in 1901)
- Australia and New Zealand have fought a number of wars together as close allies.
- Special visas available for New Zealanders in Australia (and vice versa I believe)
- Arch-rivals in sporting matches.
Maybe more like Portugal-Spain? Hard to find examples like that where there haven't been any wars in a couple hundred years, and there's also that linguistic/cultural similarity.